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The Watch is the most popular book on vintage and contemporary mechanical watches, appealing to both beginners and experts. In the decade since it was published, the international audience of watch lovers and watch collectors has grown exponentially. It's time for The Watch, Thoroughly Revised. For this new edition, the original author, Gene Stone, is joined by Stephen Pulvirent of Hodinkee.com. Together, they have thoroughly revamped the book to reflect the current state of the watch world, with the addition of new brands, new models, and more focused and nuanced coverage of the traditional brand leaders, including Rolex, Patek Philippe, Omega, and TAG Heuer.

More than 220 color photos, together with descriptions of over fifty dollmakers' richly varied works and techniques, make up this fascinating overview of the state of the dollmaking art right now. The diverse range of designs, styles and media-from plastic to wood, metal to found objects-serves as an inspiration, a reference, and a summary of the dollmaking world in the early 21st century. The doll artists featured, working across the U.S. and the world, share personal insights about their own experiences with the creative process. They also discuss challenges of aspects like facial detail and expression, material integrity and longevity, embellishments, and construction. For designers, artists, craftspeople, and others, this breathtaking summary captures and reveals today's dollmaking art.

This book outlines a powerful process for designing and creating beautiful work that is practical to make and sell. Perspectives from 22 master artisans fuse with industrial product design techniques and the author's own craftwork experience, focusing sharp insight on the process of creating original work. To use this book, begin with its suggestions for gathering ideas, brainstorming designs, and committing to an ambitious new project. Next, follow the supplied framework for evaluating, changing, and critiquing your work. Apply the book's design guidelines to make your work more visually powerful, useful, and simple to create. Finally, use this guide's advice to grow as an artisan: Find your voice, develop your skills, sell your work, and (if you want) make craftwork a career. Packed with insights from glassworkers, ceramicists, woodworkers, fiber artists, metalworkers, and more, it provides a solid framework to build on for craftspeople who want to produce spectacular work.

Open the door to creative freedom with Nick Ball's improv quilting techniques.

<b>Bring the warmth and magic of the Harry Potter films into your home with <i>Harry Potter: Homemade</i>, featuring over 25 official Wizarding World crafts, home projects, and recipes. </b><br/><br/>From friendly fireside chats in the Gryffindor common room to a crowded breakfast table at The Burrow, the Harry Potter films are filled with cozy moments of friendship, family, and home.<br/><br/>Inspired by those special moments, <i>Harry Potter: Homemade</i> offers more than 25 crafts, recipes, and activities to help you celebrate and share the comforting moments from the Harry Potter films in your own home. Divided into four chapters, one for each season of the year, projects include a wide range of crafts and activities including candle-making, quilting, jam-making, macram&eacute;, wreaths, felting, ceramics, and more. Make a Deathly Hallows wreath from the fauna around your home. Piece together a colorful quilt inspired by your favorite house. Make Honeydukes-inspired candies right in your own kitchen. Featuring step-by-step instructions and gorgeous photography, alongside behind-the-scenes facts, concept art, and film stills, <i>Harry Potter: Homemade</i> is perfect for crafters, makers, homebodies, and Harry Potter fans everywhere.<br/><br/><b>25+ PROJECTS: </b>Craft and create candles, quilts, jam, macram&eacute;, wreaths, felt, ceramics and more inspired by the Wizarding World<br/><br/><b>YEAR-ROUND GUIDE: </b>A year-round guide to cozy projects from fresh summer fruit jams to warm, colorful quilts<br/><br/><b>FOR EVERY SKILL LEVEL: </b>Complete instructions and helpful charts make it easy for crafters of all ages to make thoughtful gifts<b></b><br/><br/><b>INSPIRING IMAGES: </b>Beautiful full-color photography of every project helps ensure success!<br/><br/><b>COMPLETE YOUR COLLECTION:</b> Create more projects inspired by Harry Potter with Harry Potter: Crafting Wizardry, Harry Potter: Watercolor Wizardry and Harry Potter: Knitting Magic

<B><I>HarryPotter: Paper Crafts </I></B><B>is a unique collection of more than 20magical paper crafts inspired by the Harry Potter films.</B><br/><br/>From DIY pop-up creations to paper-cutdecorations, each craft includes clear instructions, a skill-level rating for makers of all ages, and tons of behind-the-scenes secrets from the films, from concept art to funfacts.<br/><br/><I>Harry Potter: Paper Crafts</I> features a wide range of paper-based projects that can be made from everyday materials in your home. Projects include:<br/> <ul> <li>Howler replica</li> <li>A paper wand that casts a Patronus</li> <li>3D Knight Bus that actually moves</li> <li>Fluffy marionette-style puppet</li> <li>Marauder&rsquo;s Map</li> </ul><br/>Learn to master paper crafting methods from paper folding to DIY pop-ups, Kirigami, and beyond. Also included are reusable templates to help even beginning crafters achieve impressive results!<br/> <B>20 MAGICAL PAPER PROJECTS:</B> Make everything from a Howler replica, a paper wand that casts a Patronus, a 3D Knight Bus that actually moves, a Fluffy marionette-style puppet, a Marauder&rsquo;s Map and much more!!<br/> <B>PROJECTS FOR EVERY CRAFTER:</B> No matter your age or skill level, you will find many paper crafts you can make! <I>Harry Potter: Paper Crafts</I> includes crafts for all skill levels and a wide variety of craft types.<br/> <B>STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS: </B>Easy to follow instructions guide you through each craft project.<br/> <B>REUSABLE TEMPLATES: </B>Includes sturdy, reusable templates to help even beginning crafters achieve impressive results over and over again!<br/> <B>COMPLETE YOUR COLLECTION:</B> Also available are <I>Harry Potter: Crafting Wizardry</I>, <I>Harry Potter: Gryffindor House Pride: An Official Coloring Book</I>, <I>Harry Potter: Crochet Wizardry</I>, <I>Harry Potter: Knitting Magic</I>, <I>Harry Potter: Knitting Magic: More Patterns from Hogwarts and Beyond</I> and more!

Learn how to make colorful, gorgeously patterned rugs using the 200-year-old techniques of the Shakers. The author researched and analyzed textiles at five historic Shaker village sites before developing a method to create new versions of these classics. You'll learn how ten original rugs were woven and then get detailed instructions on how to make ten reproduction rugs, with full explanations of the dyeing, the warp material, the weft materials, and how to weave, as well as instructions for weaving Shaker tapes. Learn about the history of the Shakers in America and the impact of their craftsmanship on our arts tradition. Like all items used in daily Shaker life, these rugs have three outstanding characteristics: they are unusual in their design, they are perfect for the purpose they are meant to serve, and they are beautiful in quality.